Mr. Son, the head of one of the two carriers of Apple products in Japan, returned among the top three corporate newsmakers in Japan in the month of September, according to monthly data compiled by Dow Jones Insight and edited by the Wall Street Journal.

Ahead of the sale, Softbank announced it would offer new capabilities like tethering that would better serve the latest iPhone model and better compete with rival KDDI Corp. The tethering service will allow nearby devices like laptops and portable game consoles to connect to the Internet through Wi-Fi.

The company also bumped against the law short after the smartphones’ release. Softbank was forced to alter its trade-in program which offers discounts on the iPhone 5 if customers brought in its older models, according to the Nikkei business daily. The Tokyo police said the program was illegal because Softbank Mobile Corp. was not approved to handle used merchandise. The company tweaked it so another business group of the conglomerate, which has permission to deal with the old phones, takes charge of the program.

Comments (3 of 3)

Masayoshi Son follows in a long line of Korean conquerors (Gaya and Baekje), scholars (Wang In), settlers, refugees, hostages (Rei Sampei) and immigrants who have continuously developed and enriched this most ungrateful neighboring country of Japan.

8:48 am September 28, 2012

Anonymous wrote:

People love iPhone but hate Softbank.

2:34 am September 28, 2012

Bendrix wrote:

I wonder how many people know this guy is ethnically Korean. I'm sure it's not mentioned much in Japan.

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